The Golden Child

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Summary: should have been
Review: this movie should have been better but it was just weird. a man trying to get a prince or something , I dunno I don't even want to think about the plot, it was pointless and filled with jokes in awkward places.

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Summary: EXCELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLANT !!!!!
Review: THIS WAS A GREAT COMEDY MOVIE. IT MADE ME LAUGH EVERY SINGLE TIME. I WOULD RATE IT ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES.

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Summary: Hmmm
Review: What an odd movie. Its a fantasy children's movie that thinks its a fantasy comedy. Murphy is completely lost at sea in this flick. As if he isn't entirely aware of what's going on or is trying to push the movie in a direction it just won't go in. His character and the movie seem to exist separately of each other. He plays his usual silly harmless likable guy and the rest of the movie is earnest kiddie sci-fi action.

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Summary: Just enough gold in "Golden Child"
Review: What's up with Amazon.com's editorial review on this!? Gawd! Yeah, so Eddie isn't all swearing and vulgar and there's really no T&A in this, but it's certainly not a pooper.

This is really a good movie! It's funny, fun, has the supernatural twist and is relatively clean as regards vulgarity of all kinds. And all that's very, very hard to say about any movie.

Eddie Murphy does a fine and believable job of playing Chandler Jarrow, a "finder of lost children" hanging out in "The City of Angels," when a beautiful Tibetan woman finds him and tells him that he fits the Tibetan prediction, much to the Tibetans' suprise, that "someone in the City of Angels who is no angel will save 'the golden child.'"

Now, the Golden Child is only one child in a series of Golden Children, and this Golden Child represents 'Compassion.' And if all the evil supernatural beings get a hold of this Golden Child of Compassion, all Compassion will leave the world. Well now, that's mean! So, Chandler (Eddie Murphy), the beautiful Tibetan woman, and several other very mysterious Tibetans must team up to save the Golden Child from a band of particularly disgusting supernatural beings.

There are lots of weird supernatural scenes, from L.A. to Tibet, with just-enough humor injected, and it really is an enjoyable and believable story.

Watch it!

See also: "Big Trouble in Little China" with Kurt Russell in another equally funny (probably funnier) supernatural Chinese adventure.

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Summary: The Bald Magical Child
Review: When this movie first came out, from what the critics had to say, and the trailors for it, I was not that impressed with the idea of spending money to see it. I was truly surprised when I finally did see it. It is not a visually enhanced movie, but you see a side of Eddie Murphy that is surprising and refreshing, his character is fairly polite, not too much on the 4 letter word band wagon, and actually shows compassion. I would say that he shows these same qualities in the Dr. Dolittle movies, but really... talking animals??? It is a heart warming story, protection of a childs life... see it and judge for yourself. I think you will be surprised and want to add this one to your collection!

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Summary: Eddie Murphy shines
Review: When this movie first came out, from what the critics had to say, and the trailors for it, I was not that impressed with the idea of spending money to see it. I was truly surprised when I finally did see it. It is not a visually enhanced movie, but you see a side of Eddie Murphy that is surprising and refreshing, his character is fairly polite, not too much on the 4 letter word band wagon, and actually shows compassion. I would say that he shows these same qualities in the Dr. Dolittle movies, but really... talking animals??? It is a heart warming story, protection of a childs life... see it and judge for yourself. I think you will be surprised and want to add this one to your collection!